FRENCH LITERATURE
This gallery shows the cartes-de-visite, cabinet photos, woodburytypes & albumin photos of some important 19th century French novelists, authors, poets, playwrights, journalists, historians & other literary figures. In order to see detailed information, please click on the thumbnail photos. A pop-up window will open with a larger photo and more information.
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alexander Dumas, pere
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Alexander Dumas, fils
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Alexander Dumas, fils #2
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Victor-Marie Hugo
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Victor-Marie Hugo #2
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Victor-Marie Hugo #3
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Victor-Marie Hugo #4
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Victor-Marie Hugo #5
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Charles Hugo
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Jules Verne
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Jules Verne #2
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Émile Zola
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Émile Zola #2
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Charles François Marie
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Alphonse Daudet
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Alfred de Musset
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Pierre Veron
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Sainte-Beuve
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' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,6 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1865.<br>Photographer: A. Martin, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician, born in Mâcon into French provincial nobility. He is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, \'Le Lac\' (The Lake), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms. He was one of very few French literary figures to combine his writing with a political career.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,4 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: A. Liebert, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask were serialized, and he also wrote plays, magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,4 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s.<br>Photographer: G. Le Gray, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Black&White<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Alexandre Dumas fils was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father\'s footsteps becoming a celebrated author and playwright. Alexandre Dumas fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. Laws at that time allowed Dumas Sr. to take the child away from his mother and her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his 1858 play, \'The Natural Son\', he espoused the theory that if someone brings an illegitimate child into the world, then they have an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,4 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: CH Reutlinger, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,2 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s. <br>Photographer: Stereoscopic, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Victor-Marie Hugo was a novelist, playwright, essayist and statesman, recognized as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century. His best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Poetry was another of his vocations: among many volumes, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is often identified as the greatest French poet. His works are filled with great power, abundant imagination and beautiful words that become huge features of his works. Furthermore, the complicated as well as touching plots are also the main characteristics that captivate readers\' hearts. Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,4 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1880s. <br>Photographer: Bacard Fils, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s. <br>Photographer: J. Maes, Bruxelles<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s. <br>Photographer: Frank Phot., Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1880s. <br>Photographer: E.B. Fay, New York<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,6 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Bacard Fils, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Charles Hugo was the second son of renowned French author Victor Hugo. Altough not as famous as his father today, he was a well-known writer of his time. He wrote a comedy named Je Vous Aime (I Love You) as well as several novels. He adapted his fathers famous novel Les Miserables into a play. He also wrote articles at Victor Hugo\'s newspaper L\'evenement (Event) published in 1848 and Rappel (Recall); a newspaper he and his brothers published at Paris in 1869. He loved gambling and he left a large amount of gambling debt behind when he died in 1871, at the age of 45.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 20,1 x 27 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Lock & Whitfield, London<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre best known for novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne was noted for writing about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and submarines were actually invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to the Index Translationum statistics. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the \'Father of Science Fiction\'.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 10,8 x 16,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1880s. <br>Photographer: Unknown<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Cabinet Photo<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,2 x 10,4 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1880s.<br>Photographer: J. M. Lopez, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Émile Zola was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 25 x 35,7 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s.<br>Photographer: Cliché Carjat, Goupil et Ce, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 5,6 x 8,9 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Unknown<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Albumen Print<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat, was a French politician and writer.He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute Garonne, and then of Nord.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 25 x 35,7 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: Cliché Carjat, Goupil et Ce, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Woodburytype<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: No<br><br><br>Alphonse Daudet, born in Nimes, was a French novelist. He is remembered for his Lettres De Mon Moulin, light stories of southern France, and his egocentric hero Tartarin from Tartarin De Tarascon - the boastful, loud, vulgar Don Quixote from the Midi. Alphonse Daudet, who has been called \'the French Dickens\', published also under the influence of the Goncourt brothers and Zola such serious books as Fromont Jeune Et Risler, Jack, and Sapho, which had connections to Alexandre Dumas\' (fils) The Lady of the Camillas.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s.<br>Photographer: Pierre Petit, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d\'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1870s.<br>Photographer: Pierre Petit, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good <br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Pierre Veron was a French publicist. Veron was born in Paris. In 1854 he published his first book, a volume of verse. In 1858 he joined the staff of Charivari, and edited that paper from 1865–99. He was the author of a large number of novels dealing with Parisian life, and for many years his rooms in the Rue de Rivoli were the meeting place of the most famous French literary, artistic and political celebrities. He died in Paris on 2 November 1900.'))
' , '<br>Dimensions: 6,3 x 10,5 cm.<br>Date of Creation: ca. 1860s. <br>Photographer: L.Pierson, Paris<br>Original/Reprint: Original<br>Condition: Very Good<br>Color: Sephia<br>Photo Type: Carte-de-Visite<br>Photographer\'s Imprint on Back: Yes<br><br><br>Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. Sainte-Beuve published collections of poems and the partly autobiographical novel Volupté in 1834. His articles and essays were collected the volumes Port-Royal and Portraits littéraires.After several books of poetry and a couple of failed novels, Sainte-Beuve began to undertake literary research, of which the most important is Port-Royal, while also contributing to the Revue contemporaine.'))
